Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...needs the nightmarish traffic jams that snarl commuters on game nights, anyway...
Analysts connect the snarl of problems to a single thread: the lack of any patriotic spirit. Says Angel Saldomando of cries, a private think tank in Managua: "There is no political class with a national consciousness, no social base from which to resolve the problems." That leaves Chamorro, out of touch and over her head, fumbling to start a national dialogue. Late last week she seemed to be signaling new resolve as reports circulated that the ex- Sandinista army intelligence chief, now director of army information, was about to be dismissed...
...atmospheric influence of co-producer Brian Eno, who also lends a hand on synthesizers, is audible throughout. Bono's vocals are electronically warped, the Edge's guitars chomp and snarl or dissolve into wavering pools of reverb. In Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car, a self-mockingly pompous classical overture gives way to a jittery, high-octane beat, frayed guitar riffs and ominously echoing pings that sound like sonar from a distressed nuclear...
Prominent former custodians of public trust can also help defuse image problems that threaten to snarl deals. For example, Carlyle became the adviser to Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal in his $590 million investment in Citicorp in 1991. The firm subsequently teamed with France's state-owned Thomson-CSF to outbid U.S. defense giants for the missile and aircraft divisions of LTV last year. Such global connections can be controversial. "The one significant problem for Carlyle is that they've been on the foreign side of controversial transactions," says a Washington lobbyist and rival dealmaker. But Carlyle...
...actors are only adequate, however, and not one has a first-rate singing voice. Jeff McCarthy has a sledgehammer unsubtlety as the unscrupulous impresario Rocky, Thomas Nahrwold is bland in the underwritten lead role of a failed film director, and Kathy Morath plays his despairing partner with an unrelenting snarl...